Social development

New unit to fix prosthetics

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Cambodia announced yesterday the launch of a new mobile workshop that repairs prosthetics for the disabled in Siem Reap province. ...

Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-unit-fix-prosthetics

Job site seeks to curb dangerous migration

The NGO Open Institute has launched a new online service that aims to help Cambodian unskilled labourers find jobs within the country as part of an effort to discourage worker migration in hopes of reducing human trafficking. ...

Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/job-site-seeks-curb-dangerous-migration

Affordable public housing needed: official

A senior official at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction appealed yesterday to institutions, private companies and related parties to help increase public housing for low and middle income families. In the first annual national forum on housing yesterday, Chhan Saphan, a secretary ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31108/affordable-public-housing-needed--official/

Envoy’s strong message

After her third UN fact-finding mission to Cambodia, special rapporteur Rhona Smith issued a searing review of the human rights situation in the country, stating that the days of the government evoking the troubles of the past century as an excuse for its present shortcomings ...

Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31047/envoy---s-strong-message/

MoU to help poor families get housing

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and Habitat for Humanity Cambodia (HFHC) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that supports a national housing policy to address housing for low-income families. The MoU aims to support implementation of the national housing policy, which ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31041/mou-to-help-poor-families-get-housing/

Mekong states to close the development gap

Delegations from the five lower Mekong states met with officials from the Asia-Pacific region, the US and Europe yesterday to convene the 9th Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) and Friends of the Lower Mekong (FLM) Regional Working Group aimed at devising strategies to strengthen infrastructure, connectivity ...

Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31043/mekong-states-to-close-the-development-gap/

Call to follow spirit of agreement

The government was urged yesterday to follow the spirit of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement as a model to solve the current political problems with dialogue and partnership rather than conflict. At a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the agreements, which saw ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30979/call-to-follow-spirit-of-agreement/

Amret gets $245,000 grant from UNCDF

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) provided Amret Microfinance Cambodia with a grant of $245,000 to help more women in the Kingdom access financial services and eventually contribute to local community development. ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30961/amret-gets--245-000-grant-from-uncdf/

Women’s center aims for sustainability

One year strong and more than 900 jobs later, the US State Department-supported start-up center WECREATE, which invests in the economic empowerment of women, is beginning its expansion throughout the Lower Mekong Region. ...

Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30972/women---s-center-aims-for-sustainability/

Sub-decree could back evicted villagers’ claims

A little-publicized sub-decree signed in July and discovered by the Post yesterday in an NGO database raises questions as to whether the eviction on Saturday of six ethnic Kuoy families in Preah Vihear was in contravention of an order by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

Jack Davies and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sub-decree-could-back-evicted-villagers-claims

Deadly rabies virus gets overdue attention

It kills more Cambodians every year than malaria. More than dengue fever. It’s 100 percent preventable, but very little has been done to eradicate it. This year, Cambodia is finally taking on rabies—a killer virus most often transmitted to people through the saliva of biting dogs. A ...

Chhorn Phearun and Michael Dickison
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deadly-rabies-virus-gets-overdue-attention-119414/

Rights must improve: UN

The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights yesterday told Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn that Cambodia is the top ranking country in terms of freedom of expression in the Asean region, but must improve in other areas of human rights which have been raised by the ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30914/rights-must-improve--un/

Rainsy says China aid to blame for rights abuses

Days after signing a statement welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Cambodia, opposition leader Sam Rainsy took to Radio Free Asia to slam China for enabling human rights abuses in the Kingdom with no-strings-attached loans.​ ...

Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-says-china-aid-blame-rights-abuses

Psychological distress high among disabled

People with disabilities and their families in two Cambodian provinces – Kampong Cham and Tbong Khmum – experience significant psychological distress, endure discrimination and stigma and their rights “re-main largely unrecognised”, a new study has found. ...

Sen David and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/psychological-distress-high-among-disabled

Young voters face disenfranchisement

Young potential voters who have migrated abroad in search of work are facing the loss of their voting rights due to a lack of information and documents required to register to vote from a location different to their registered address, civil society groups said yesterday.​ ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30819/young-voters-face-disenfranchisement/

170 Vietnamese asylum seekers given two weeks to leave

Almost two years since the latest wave of Montagnard asylum seekers began crossing into Ratanakkiri province claiming to be fleeing persecution in Vietnam, an immigration official said on Wednesday that the 170 remaining in Phnom Penh had two weeks to return home or face forcible ...

Aun Pheap and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/170-vietnamese-asylum-seekers-given-two-weeks-leave-119215/

More evictees may have recourse through IFC

Rights groups say families being forced off their land by development projects recently revealed to have World Bank Group backing could probably file successful complaints against the institution, effectively forcing it to help the families save their homes or at least win better compensation. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-may-recourse-ifc-119213/

Envoy calls for prison reform

Rhona Smith, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, who is on a three-day trip to the Kingdom, yesterday voiced her concern about overcrowding in prisons caused by an increase in temporary detentions before trials. Ms. Smith, on her third visit to Cambodia, raised ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30689/envoy-calls-for-prison-reform/

Organisation seeks women to study in US

A US-based organisation that helps young women from post-conflict countries attend school in the United States is currently seeking Cambodian applicants who have the academic strength and leadership potential that could land them in a top US school. ...

Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/organisation-seeks-women-study-us

Minister puts neo-natal intensive care on agenda

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng has issued a directive for all private maternity clinics and hospitals to establish neo-natal intensive care units – which treat seriously ill newborns and premature infants – in order to further reduce maternal and child deaths in the Kingdom.​ ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-puts-neo-natal-intensive-care-agenda

Jarai say no to Ratanakiri gold mine

An insurrection led by ethnic Jarai villagers against the Kingdom’s first commercial underground gold mine, to be operated by Indian-owned Mesco Gold (Cambodia), looms over the green, serene remote hamlet of Plung, a few kilometers from the Vietnamese border, in Ratanakiri’s O’Yadaw district. ...

Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan and May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30569/jarai-say-no-to-ratanakiri-gold-mine/

Teachers’ salaries to be reviewed

The Education Ministry will look into further increasing the minimum wage for teachers in Cambodia after educators said the recent hike of $37, to take effect next April, was still insufficient.​ During the 2016 Teachers’ Day celebration at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia yesterday, Education ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30562/teachers----salaries-to-be-reviewed/

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